Healthy Foods And
Healthy Diet

"What to eat today?". With so many
variety of food and products available in the market and grocery
stores, this is still the most frequent ask question even you are
eating alone today.

"What to eat" is not hard to answer if
you compared to others annoying that you are facing every day. But
to fulfill the requirement of "healthy eating" such as less-sugar,
sugar-free, low-carbohydrate, fresh, natural, organic and any others
health claim, "healthy eating" may become stressful and hard which
it shouldn't be in that way.

Healthy Food Recipes 2u provides you
information, ways and methods on how to cook and eat healthily. You
may develop your long-term healthy eating habit while your are
enjoying the process of cooking.

Healthy Diet Is the Wisdom of Knowing
What to Eat, When to Eat, How to Eat & How Much to Eat.

Healthy dieting is not a mystery. It
should be able to provide sufficient of nutrients and energy for
your daily activities. Develop a healthy dieting habit is crucial
because it is the way to maintain or improve your general health by
helping to prevent or lower the rick of health diseases such as
cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, obesity etc.

What to Eat?

Variety is the spice of life. Maximize the variety of food
that you eat daily. Eat vegetables and fruits in all colors of
rainbow if possible. A healthy diet need to consist of a balance of
macronutrient which including protein, carbohydrates, fats and
micronutrient such as minerals and vitamins to meet human's
nutritional need. Sufficient amount of water is also important for
developing your healthy diet.

How to Choose Your Healthy Food?

Food that provides
you good quality of energy

Contain high fiber, minerals, vitamins and antioxidants
component

Fresh

Less
processed

Avoid
high calorie food

Avoid saturated fat

Avoid preservation and artificial components

Low sodium and sugar

When to Eat?

Eat food when it is still fresh. Some food especially vegetables and fruits start to lose their
minerals and vitamins right after cut. To obtain maximum nutrition value of the food, try not to keep your cut vegetables
or fruits for to long before eating.

Knowing
when to eat is important because the benefits that you can gain from
the food may be vary according to the time (in a day) that you eat.
If you eat the food in the wrong time may cause you some unwanted
side effects such as sleepiness, insomnia, stomach upset,
indigestion or weight gain.

How to Eat?

By
using an appropriate healthy cooking methods and techniques, you may
maintain the good taste of food at the same time minimize the food's
nutrition being lost while cooking. If possible, eat the vegetables
in raw to obtain its highest health benefits.

Avoid deep frying
cooking method as it is not good for health. Nutrients contain in
your food will be destroyed in the high heat conduction of oil. The
overheating or over-using oil may contain some deleterious or even
toxic components that may harm to your health.

How Much to Eat?

Use
Food Pyramid as a guide to determine the portion of food that you eat daily.
Do not over eating and do not skip any of your meal in a day.
Remember the healthy eating pattern as breakfast eat like a king,
lunch eat like a prince and dinner eat like a beggar.